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A headteacher says pupil behaviour is better and bullying is down since he barred mobiles in his school. So should others follow suit? Teachers argue for and againstNo - they help independent study"You'll have someone's eye out with that" used to be the refrain of teachers in my day. In...

gigaom.com

Netflix, it seems, is to cloud computing what Google and Facebook are to distributed systems, generally. Today, Netflix has open sourced its latest technology for keeping its cloud-hosted applications running — a set of libraries, called Hystrix, that is designed to manage interactions between the myriad services that comprise the...

techcrunch.com

The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways or small, making plans to keep...

arstechnica.com

Sandia researcher David Fritz standing in front of a cluster of Android virtual machines, holding two Galaxy Nexus phones. Sandia National Laboratories Anyone who builds an Android app knows that testing on real devices is important. But what if instead of testing on one device at a time, you...

arstechnica.com

This week in tech was full of conflict: Microsoft pointed its finger at Google's tracking cookies, the government took steps toward loosening the rules restricting unmanned surveillance drones in the U.S., and Visual Studio 11 revealed a design change that upset many long-time users. The jabs and shots are...

www.businessinsider.com

Ron Johnson, the former retail boss at Apple, became CEO of department store chain JCPenney in June of 2011. Since then the company, which had a very good 2010, has implemented a series of gigantic overhauls to nearly every aspect of its business. It's resulted in the shedding of customers,...

www.techdirt.com

Stewart Baker, the former DHS official whose warnings about how SOPA would wreak havoc on online security were instrumental in convincing many of our elected officials that SOPA and PIPA were half-baked legislative disasters, now has a fascinating writeup for The Hollywood Reporter, trying to explain why the Republican Party...

mashable.com

Imagine the apocalypse. Now imagine characters and elements from 80ies games carrying it out. This is exactly what this crazy video portrays, and being a classic games geek myself, if this sort of thing were to happen in real life, I’m not sure whether I’d run or marvel at...

thenextweb.com

“Facebook hacking” usually doesn’t mean a remote attacker actually broke into your account to wreak havoc left, right, and center. Among the users of the social network, the term really just means you forgot to logout of your Facebook account, and your friends took advantage by posting (usually embarrassing) status...

www.wired.com

<< Previous | Next >> AOL has dropped its "Micro Data Center" into a field behind its Virginia headquarters. But the online outfit wants to put the thing ... everywhere. Image: AOL<< Previous | Next >>View all AOL just shrunk the computer data center to the size of Porta-Potty. As...

www.techdirt.com

By now you've probably caught a link or two to the New York Times' layout-obliterating mini-game embedded in an article about so-called "stupid games". The article itself is an interesting (if slightly long-winded) history and mild (if slightly self-indulgent) condemnation of the "dark side" of hyperaddictive games from Tetris to...

www.insidemobileapps.com

Carmageddon is a new iOS release from Stainless Games. It’s a port of a PC game from the late ’90s, which has itself been recently been rereleased on digital distribution platform GOG.com, and which has a Kickstarter-funded official sequel on the way. Carmageddon for iOS, referred to as “Carmageddon funsize”...

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venturebeat.com

Remember the S1 and S2 Sony showed us a while ago? Looks like the company is still thinking in unconventional terms when it comes to tablet design. Newly leaked images are supposedly press photos of the new Sony Xperia tablet. We’re also hearing that the tablet may bring beefy...

www.computerworld.com

German security firm Avira yesterday issued a service pack for its antivirus software that crippled an unknown number of Windows machines, with one customer calling the gaffe "catastrophic" to his company....

www.techdirt.com

Defense Department boss Leon Panetta has been recycling his cyber Pearl Harbor ghost stories for a few years now to push for expansive cybersecurity legislation (i.e. budget and power to spy on people), but Pearl Harbor is a bit outdated these days. So why not shoot for a more contemporary...

www.businessinsider.com

As you may know, some people believe the world is going to end on Friday. The people who believe this believe it because they believe that some Mayan writings said the world will end on Friday. Other people, happily, disagree. About the world ending. About what the Mayan writings said....

www.readwriteweb.com

First in a five-part series. When you spend a week interviewing people about a social media bubble and whether it exists, one of the things you notice is that people who insist there is no bubble make little mention of revenue and business models. They talk about the depth...

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The New York Times's Nick Bilton is on a one-man crusade to force the Federal Aviation Administration to rethink its blanket ban on electronic gadget use during commercial-flight takeoffs and landings. As far as anyone knows, there is no evidence to support the FAA's assertion that gadgets can wreak...

kev.inburke.com

tl;dr Anyone who knows your Virgin Mobile phone number can: see who you’ve been calling and texting, change the handset associated with your number, change your address, your email address, or your password, purchase a handset on your behalf There is no way to defend against this attack. The first...

mashable.com

Flash mobs are usually associated with randomized fun (or pantlessness), but in Philly, they’re basically akin to randomized violence. Last night, Mayor Michael Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams took to the streets to spread a message to the city’s young, social media-savvy inhabitants: Flash mobs will not be...

thenextweb.com

Hurricane Sandy may have wreaked havoc with Google’s big event plans today, but that didn’t stop the Internet giant rolling out the news anyway. In addition to three new sizes of Nexus – small, medium and large – Android 4.2 also got a look-in, “a new flavor” of Jelly Bean,...

www.geekwire.com

In other e-mail news today, Yahoo Mail launched an upgrade that would make it “faster and easier” to use. Instead, when Yahoo Mail users tried to log into their accounts, they got stuck in a vortex of a unresponsive terms and conditions page or a failed message. As TechCrunch reported,...

www.businessinsider.com

As you may know, some people believe the world is going to end on Friday, December 21. It's already Friday, December 21, in New Zealand, and the world hasn't ended, but sharp doomsayers on Twitter point out that the Mayans were on Central time not New Zealand time. And the...

thenextweb.com

Windows XP has been largely absent from the news in the last year, sitting back while Windows 7 sold hundreds of millions of copies, and Windows 8 became a publicly known quantity. Given the age of Windows XP, you might think that it is very much a closed chapter; you...